Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-12
STORIES OF ANIMALS.

A WHITE buzzard harnts a plantation at
Union Springs, Ala
IL cities in India pigeons are often numer-
Gus enough to darken the air.
SQUIRRELS are so numerous and tame in
the woods of COncordia, La, that they can
be killed with sticks.
HENRY S. CARPENTER, of Osceola, NY,
says he has caught $500 brook trout dur
ing the past twenty years.
AN oyster weighing three and one-quar-
Ter pounds and measuring ten inches by six
inches was taken at Huntington, l. l.
A HEN at Hampden, Conn, was placed on
q dozen quail eggs, and Matched out
eight quail, which she afterward reared
with care.
MICE carried of sos in paper money be
longing TO Mrs. Lucy Cain, of Hannibal,
Mo-, and after tearing II into small pieces
made a nest of it
WHILE a man named Bonkin was lately
fishing in a Duchess County IN. W pond
wild duck few down, dived, swallowed
the hook, and was caught.
The six hundred French army cats
whose duty it is TO catch mice in the cloth
ing store-hOuses, are to have their rations
reduced, since they have become too fat
and lazy TO capture the offending rodents.
TRAINED dogs were employed to convoy
messages along the outposts at the German
military manuevers this fall The dogs
also did duty with the scntnels, and were
so prompt in giving alarms that their use
Is TO be extended.
A LARGE black eagle, measuring six feet
from tip to tip of wings, was caught on the
farm of John Raddy, of Byron, Wis, in the
act of trying to kill calf. A cow had
taken up the fight, and had broken one OF
the eagles wings. Thus disabled the bird
was easily captured.
A SHANGHAI rooster on the farm of Will.
lam II. Arnold in W oodstock, Conn, has
adopted four maltese kittens, whose mother
was mangled in trap and had to be killed
The rooster gathers the orphans under his
sheltering wings every night, and the kit.
tens appear well satisfied with their new
home.
A. b. BELCHER, of Decatur County, Ga,
owns a ten-year-old OK having and wearing
three fully developed horns-two at their
proper places, and the third growing out of
his shoulder, near the withers, and prob
ably fourteen inches in length. Mr.. Belcher
has owned him all his life, and this third
horn made its appearance several years
ago.
A NAPA (Cal.) man thought he saw a sea
serpent in the river there, but it was only
solid mass of little fishes, each about an
inch and "a half long. The school was about
fifty yards long and a yard wide and headed
up stream. The commotion they made was
caused by hundreds of large fishes that
were continually throwing thcmselv es
among and eating up the little ones.
MICHAEL FREisNUTH, of Wheeling, W.
Va, pigeon fancier, sent two homing
birds to Wichita, Kan, to test their Qua.-
tiles. They were released, and one arrived
in Wheeling in % hours aud Al minutes
from the time of release. The distance in an
air line is estimated to be 100 miles. The
actual flying time is supposed to be about
2i hours, the bird having done ID miles per
hour while on the wing. This record is
one of the best ever made. An offer OF
800 for the bird has been refused.
As A freight train on tho Eric railway
was approaching Pond Eddy, in Pike Coun.
| ty, n. ", the engineer saw u buck deer
leap from one of the highest points of the
| lofty wall Of rock that runs along the road
in the Delaware valley. The deer alighted
at the side of the track and did not rise.
The engineer stopped his train and found
that two Of the deer's legs and several of
its ribs were broken. He cut its throat,
loaded the unfortunate animal on his en-
| CINE, and took it to Port Jervis. AZ he
started his train two dogs appeared at the
! point where the deer. had taken its fatal
leap.
"ISDiAN JO=," a Saybrook (Conn. }
worthy, recently killcl two foxes at one
shot His dog got on the trail of a fox, and
/ Joe, making up his mind that the quarry
would travel over a certain route, stretched
himself ont behind a bush, lighted his pipe
and await d-dcvelopments. His calcula-
tons proved correct, and when the deg
came in sight fine fox WAS little ahead
| of him. There was another fox running
I close beside the first, and - the two passed
| O pair of bars, almost neck and neck, Joe
blazed away. When he ran up to the fence
he found two foxes lying dead on the
! ground.